SILVER AGE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

silver age

noun

Definition of silver age

as in millennium

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dark age

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. — Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals. — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017

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Noun

Without human greenhouse gas emissions, a summer that hot would occur once in a millennium, but is now expected once every nine years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
There have been only four multi-time recipients this millennium.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

Where travel still leaves room for people The goal isn't to return to some imaginary golden age of travel.

— Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
The 70s were also the last golden age of an American monoculture, when most of us experienced the same programs, movies, and records at the same time.

— David Kamp, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

Born into a prosperous but unhappy family, the owners of a seed nursery, Kusama saw visions of flowers from an early age, dots that spread across surfaces and spoke to her.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
For bouquets, Wahlen recommends choosing one type of flower that has already been identified as non-toxic rather than an arrangement filled with unfamiliar stems and greenery, where a dangerous flower may be tucked among otherwise safe blooms.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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